Harvest continues
The salsa turned out great with these tomatoes.
Update Sunday 9/11: Please note that posting was delayed (for both this and the Michael Brown item) because of some sort of “scheduled maintenance” hiccup with Blogger Friday afternoon. This is the first chance I’ve had to reconstruct these posts and get them up.
Ooops, FEMA director Michael Brown was just kicked off the Katrina response and sent back to Washington, but not demoted. At any rate, Brownie isn’t “doing a heck of a job” any more.
Normally, the sort resume falsification alleged of Brown by Time Magazine would lead to immediate resignation. But let’s not forget, this is the Bush Administration, where nobody ever does anything wrong. So Brown will be allowed to remain FEMA director, despite these stories.
Here is how Democracy Now! summarized the allegations:
According to Time Magazine, Brown may have fabricated parts of his resume. Brown claimed that he worked in Edmond Oklahoma as an assistant city manager with emergency services oversight.” In fact he was an administrative assistant to the city manager. One city official said he was essentially an intern. Brown also claimed that he was once the Director of Christian nursing facility in Oklahoma. But an administrator at the facility told Time that Brown was “not a person that anyone here is familiar with.” In addition Brown claims on his resume that he won a prize for being “Outstanding Political Science Professor” at Central State University. But according to an official at the school, Brown “wasn’t a professor here, he was only a student.” Time reports these revelations raise new questions about how rigorously the White House vetted Brown before putting him in charge of FEMA.
Can’t we just get rid of this guy — send him home to his “stiff margarita” — for good? And let’s not stop with Brown. Chertoff and the rest, including Bush, should get out of the way and truly out of office too, so we can start cleaning up their mess of failed cronyinsm, war, and death they’ve left for us.